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Descriptor English: Foot
Descriptor Spanish: Pie
Descriptor pie
Scope note: Porción distal de la pierna de los vertebrados, que consta de tarso (TOBILLO), METATARSO, falanges y los tejidos blandos que rodean a éstos huesos.
Descriptor Portuguese: Pé
Descriptor French: Pied
Entry term(s): Feet
Tree number(s): A01.378.610.250
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005528
Scope note: The distal extremity of the leg in vertebrates, consisting of the tarsus (ANKLE); METATARSUS; phalanges; and the soft tissues surrounding these bones.
Annotation: vertebrates only: for invertebrates use EXTREMITIES: dis of foot = FOOT DISEASES; skin dis on foot = FOOT DERMATOSES: see note there; neopl of foot: use neopl coords (IM) + FOOT DISEASES (IM); foot prints (like finger prints) = PLANTAR PRINTS see DERMATOGLYPHICS
Allowable Qualifiers: AH anatomy & histology
BS blood supply
DG diagnostic imaging
EM embryology
GD growth & development
IR innervation
MI microbiology
PA pathology
PH physiology
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
RE radiation effects
SU surgery
TR transplantation
VI virology
Entry Combination: abnormalities:Foot Deformities, Congenital
injuries:Foot Injuries
Related: Foot Bones MeSH
DeCS ID: 5665
Unique ID: D005528
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2009/07/31
Foot - Preferred
Concept UI M0008714
Scope note The distal extremity of the leg in vertebrates, consisting of the tarsus (ANKLE); METATARSUS; phalanges; and the soft tissues surrounding these bones.
Preferred term Foot
Entry term(s) Feet



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